Road safety (3)

Caroline Pidgeon: Further to the response to question 2019/14172, as part of your Vision Zero strategy will TfL publish an improvement programme, including timelines, to tackle acknowledged junction design flaws?

The Mayor: My Vision Zero Action Plan commits to improving 41 Safer Junctions in total by May 2020. This is part of a far wider programme of work to reduce road danger and achieve Vision Zero.
Please also see my response to Mayor’s Questions 2019/19636 and 2019/19589.

Road safety (1)

Caroline Pidgeon: Further to the response to question 2019/14172, can you confirm whether TfL has carried out reviews to identify other junctions on the Transport for London Road Network which share similar characteristics to the one where Lucia Ciccioli was killed?

The Mayor: It is an utter tragedy that anyone should lose their life on a London street and my thoughts remain with the family and friends of Lucia Ciccioli. That is why I and Transport for London (TfL) are adopting a Vision Zero approach to road danger reduction. I am committed to doing all I can to learn from such tragic incidents and to eradicate death and serious injury on our roads. It is for this reason that TfL has introduced a new fatal collision investigation process, called Go Look See, whereby the location of a death on our roads is visited by TfL staff to identify any opportunities to reduce risk.
Each junction is unique however, and the way that traffic moves through and around each junction is also specific to each location. However, we are aware that there are locations on the road network that present more significant road danger, and TfL is developing a tool that will help identify such locations that share similar characteristics, in order to prioritise our future programme of infrastructure improvements. This tool will be complete by next April and will allow TfL to adopt a more proactive approach to identifying risk on London’s roads.
Please also see my response to Mayor’s Question 2019/19589.

FreeNow App

David Kurten: It has been alleged that there is a discrepancy between FreeNow’s driver Terms and Conditions which states that the driver charges the passenger the metered fare for the taxi trip, however, and their passenger Terms and Conditions which says the driver assigns the taxi trip fare payment to FreeNow to charge the passenger. Would these billing arrangements adhere to existing TfL regulations?

The Mayor: Taxi apps are outside of current legislation and new primary legislation would be required to change the extent to which licenses are required in the taxi and private hire industry.Therefore, they are outside of TfL’s existing regulatory scope.